Fifth Harmony's Normani Kordei has battled through intense physical pain during her tenure on Dancing With the Stars due to a back and hip strain. But during the most recent episode, the singer shared the mental anguish she suffered at the hands of vicious cyberbullies.

After performing an emotional contemporary number with her partner Val Chmerkovskiy (one that was eventually awarded a perfect score from the judges), Kordei spoke in depth about the horrific—and often violent—bullying she endured on social media after an interview she gave was taken out of context. At the time, angry fans thought she was being rude about former bandmate Camila Cabello back in August 2016.

"I got bullied terribly on social media," 20-year-old Kordei shared following her performance, according to People. "People were calling me the N-word. It was really ugly."

Kordei also revealed that the abuse moved beyond verbal insults and into physically threatening images. "Every time I went online, it's, 'Oh, how much we hate you. How talentless you are,'" she said to the judges. These cyberbullies even made images of her being whipped, beaten, and hanged.

The bullying left the Fifth Harmony singer feeling "alone, helpless, and desperate." "I shouldn't want to change the color of my skin or texture of my hair or the fact that I'm a woman," she said. "We all want to be loved. We all want to feel accepted, but when that doesn’t happen, then it just breaks you."

Kordei's moving speech on DWTS was met with an overwhelmingly positive response from the judges—and also helped to shed more light on why the singer quit Twitter for two months last year and nearly left Fifth Harmony's tour. She previously wrote an essay about her experience with cyber bullies for Refinery29, advising others who might be enduring the same struggle to "keep yourself surrounded by amazing people that you genuinely feel confident and comfortable with, and people that help remind you who it is that you are."